Tuesday, November 4, 2008

How to cope with blood and gore

My daughter is thinking again about being a midwife. She loves the idea of the communication side of the job and knows she will do a brilliant job of building relationships and supporting women (she is an excellent communicator, even though I say it myself).

But she is concerned about how she'll cope with the 'medical' side of things - how will she cope with the 'blood and gore'?

Any advice from those of you who are midwives, medical practitioners and midwifery students?

4 comments:

Turn on the Discovery Health Channel and just watch it over and over again, the surgeries, including c-sections, especially. Eventually she'll be able to do it even while eating strawberry cheesecake ice cream (which I one day realized looks similar!) Simple desensitization.

Sarah Stewart

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